medical ethics

Depicts the story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor Southern black woman, whose cells were taken from her body without her permission during the 1950s for medical research and continue to be alive and used more than sixty years after her death. Discusses the issues of owning our own bodies and why Henrietta's family was never informed about her "immortality" for more than twenty years after she died. Includes chapter notes, photographs, and an index.

"Millions of people around the world suffer from infertility. For them, the prospect of having a baby may have seemed unattainable just a century ago. However, new technologies have not only made it possible for more people to have children but have also helped parents assess the health of their babies before they're even born. Treatments include artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and amniocentesis. However, these new treatments have also sparked controversies involving the boundaries of government control, private choice, religious belief, and parental wishes. This book helps readers explore the many sides of this complicated issue"--Amazon.

Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping.

Briefly explores the history of reproductive technology and modern debates and controversies surrounding reproduction. Discusses the religious viewpoint, the history of eugenics, sperm and egg donation, and the ethics of genetic engineering. Includes a glossary.

Thirteen essays provide opposing arguments on issues regarding organ donation and transplants, including ethical questions, compensation for donation, the purchasing of organs, oversight of the U.S. transplant system, convicts being excluded from receiving transplants, and animal-human transplants.

Focuses on the ethics of medical testing and offers a variety of perspectives-eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more to illuminate the issue.

"This nonfiction book for teens examines the complex issue of medical assistance in dying from multiple perspectives"--OCLC.

Dr. Rana Awdish, a physician who suddenly became a dying patient, explores a new paradigm and rationale for cultivating emotional bonds with their patients.

"Medical and pharmaceutical research is big business. This . . . book reveals the competition in the corporate and academic worlds to be the first to find a new procedure or product that could change the world. Features include Dark Science Secrets, which reveal stories of unethical and deadly medical experiments from the past"--Provided by publisher.

"A critical care doctor's . . . stories about what it means to be saved by modern medicine [and] what comes after for those whose lives are extended by days, months, or years as a result of our treatments and technologies. . . . Lamas explores the complex answers to this question through intimate accounts of patients and their families. A grandfather whose failing heart has been replaced by a battery-operated pump; a salesman who found himself a kidney donor on social media; a college student who survived a near fatal overdose and returned home, alive but not the same; and a young woman navigating an adulthood she never thought she'd live to see--these moving narratives paint a detailed picture of the fragile border between sickness and health"--Provided by publisher.